 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 lehte
...bread. Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat - • To peep at fuch a world. To fee the ftir Of Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 lehte
...bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To,peep at fuch a world ; to fee the ftir Of Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates, ' At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 lehte
...his bread. ,Tis plcafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world ; to fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates, At .At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 lehte
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retrea To i>eep at fuch a world. To fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar foe fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 lehte
...his bread, 'Tis pleafant thro' the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world ; to lee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar Ihe fends thro' all her gates At a fafe c'.iftance, where the dying found Fills a foft murmur on th'uninjur'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 lehte
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world; to fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | 1795 - 466 lehte
...themselves, yet fear to break, What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns ? Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd." A NEWSPAPER is so true a type of the caprice and levity of Englishmen, that it may be stilcd their... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 lehte
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd To some secure and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 364 lehte
...his bread; .Tis pleafant through the lo.)p-holes of retreat -ep at fuch a world ; to fee the ftir I Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar flie fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found ' Falls a foft murmur on... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 394 lehte
...his bread. Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world ; to fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar me fends through all her gates At a fafe dirlance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th"... | |
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the... 
